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“I'm scared to death.” Behind the shortage keeping cancer patients away from chemotherapy

Stephanie Scanlan learned the shocking shortages of essential chemotherapy drugs this spring. Two of the three drugs normally used to treat her rare bone cancer were too rare. She would have to move on without them. Ms. Scanlan, 56, head of a busy state office in Tallahassee, Florida, had sought the drugs for months as … [Read more…]

CAR-T helps other autoimmune patients in small study – STAT

SAN DIEGO – When the first lupus patient received CAR-T therapy, researchers watched in amazement as her autoimmune disease rapidly regressed. Then they watched her illness anxiously for months, wondering whether it would return — especially as her immune B cells began to recover. Now, two and a half years later, researchers reported at the … [Read more…]